At midnight, the NSA will no longer keep bulk records of telephone calls

At midnight tonight, something different will happen when you make a call. The NSA won’t be collecting information about it as part of the bulk telephone records it was receiving from carriers. The information that the NSA will no longer automatically see, includes metadata like phone numbers and the length of calls.

From now on, carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint will hold on to that data, releasing it to the NSA only when the agency receives permission from a special court. The court will give out that permission on a case-by-case basis. And the government will have to … – Source

At midnight, the NSA will no longer keep bulk records of telephone calls